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1960s tech used to produce 30TB tapes you can use right now
DOGE didn’t say what the new media was only to referring to them as “modern digital records”
Symply, a storage hardware expert that launched the first LTO-9 tape drive, will start shipping LTO-10 products as early as mid-June 2025 from $11,995 (SAS) with devices equiped with other interfaces (Ethernet and Thunderbolt) costing more. It’s been a quarter of a century already since LTO-1 hit the market and while it has many critics ( including within the US government), its resilience, value for money and ability to adapt to countless storage demands makes it a reliable partner regardless of the use case. We witnessed the demise of competitors (like Sony’s ODA) and while alternative forms of storage ( most notably Cerabyte) show exciting potential, they are still very far from reaching the same status as tape.
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